Year+10+-+Activities+Portal

=Year 10: Activities Portal=



__Activity #1__:
==Directly below I have created a worksheet linking the themes, quotes and events in //Wild Cat Falling// to our overall idea of discrimination. You are required to download this worksheet and fill it in in groups of four. Each member of each group must have a completed version to access on their laptops. As you do this, I will have three "Fakebook" pages open on the projector, with our three major themes, "Discrimination", "Sense of Identity" and "Alienation" personified as Facebook users. As your groups come up with great quotes which explain each theme, you can type up the quote under the appropriate theme as a "Status Update" with an explanation of how it links to your theme and to discrimination. You will have 20 minutes to complete this task.==

Fakebook Profile for Discrimination:
[|__http://www.classtools.net/fb/32/KaJYD2__]

Please find below a worksheet analysing the themes in //Wild Cat Falling//. Please fill out with close reference to the text.
==I have also provided below a copy of the same worksheet as a PDF in case your Macs cannot open the Microsoft Word version of the worksheet. I have however been told that Pages does open Microsoft Word documents, but have provided this just in case. If you are using the PDF version you may need to recreate it in Pages before filling out the table.==

__Activity #3__:
==Below I have attached the following two documents: one is a list of key quotes from the film, //Mississippi Burning// and the other is a scaffold designed to help you really analyse these quotes. Please download both, read through the key quotes and fill in the gaps in the two tables. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions.==

Please find below a worksheet to be downloaded and completed, comparing how themes are portrayed in //Wild Cat Falling// and //Mississippi Burning//.


==I understand that some Macs may not be compatible with Microsoft Word docs. As such, below I have created a PDF document containing the same worksheet. It may be necessary for you to create and save a new Pages document and recreate the table accordingly.==



__Activity #7__:
==Below I have pasted some URL links in order to expose you to some of the critical feedback written about //Wild Cat Falling//. In particular these two sources provide interesting insight into the intertextual references in the novel to //Waiting for Godot// and the effect of these allusions.==

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==I would like to ask you to complete the following exercise directly underneath this post. With any luck (depending on if we have time) I would like to set up a mock interview panel. The panel will be comprised of students playing the roles of Mudrooroo / Colin Johnson, Alan Parker (the director of //Mississippi Burning//), an anti-racial discrimination activist and finally a convener (who will introduce and conclude the session, interview the characters, maintain order, etc.). As such I would like you guys to start thinking of questions which you would like to ask these people and post them directly below this. Once the convener has asked all of his questions, the other students will be allowed an opportunity to ask questions of their own and to decide whether or not they agree that each of the "interviewees" would really have answered the questions in the ways the other boys have. This should be fun if you all choose to participate.==

Do you believe that your sense of identity has been recovered by naming yourself Mudrooroo? Do you think 'Mississippi Burning' has changed many views of people around the world? Discrimination is a world-wide thing where everyone experiences it. Do you think activists, like you, can change people's opinion about discriminating people?
 * Mudrooroo**... How do you think discrimination has changed over the past 50 years?
 * Alan Parker**... After directing the movie 'Mississippi Burning', do you believe it has taught many people about the discrimination many people have had to face and has discrimination now been less than in the past?
 * Activist**... Do you think that discrimination can be abolished?